Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I can't think of Dave Stewart anymore without thinking of that character.

there's a half-man half-biscuit song that starts 'quick, run, hide, here comes dave stewart. he's got that look in his eyes, that "let's do a project" look'.

something something 'third-rate swiss agit-prop'

(think it was a peel session track that was never recorded)

http://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/peel-sessions-and-other-one-offs/mars-ultras-youll-never-make-the-station/

In The Garden is still a great lp anyway. Not sure about after that.

But was thinking about that monkey hour Nathan Barley thing. Wondered if that was a Popul Vuh reference or is Affenstunde a wider idea in German thought?

The night we met I got home about 11.30pm. I felt so inspired by him, by his ideas, by his raw nerve, I wrote a song called 'Damien Save Me' - from mediocrity and from people who don't share their emotions. The next morning I went up to the studio and put it all down on tape: 'Damien save me and be my guide, sooner or later we're all gonna die, when we were walking through the streets, everything you said was bitter sweet . . . Cut me in half and I'll let you see, what this whole wide world has done to me.' When I played it to him he just said, 'Wow', and kissed me.

dave stewart on his friendship with damien hirst. Even the fictional version of him couldn't be a bigger twat!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Stewart#Music

XP that is fucking appalling

If that would have been a transcript of Speer and Hitler presented at Nuremberg, he'd have gone to the gallows. I wonder if he flogged his Hirst pieces before their value completely plummeted along with his rep!

David A. Stewart (born 1952), English musician and record producer best known for his work with Eurythmics
Dave Stewart (keyboardist) (born 1950), former member of Egg, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Bruford, now works with vocalist Barbara Gaskin
Dave Stewart (trombonist), bass trombonist and music teacher based in London
Dave Stewart, drummer with the group Camel
Dave Stewart, guitar and vocals with Steve Hillage's band

... there's a band in the making.

to give damien his due, chopped in half and tanked is a pleasing description for what happened to the eurythmics and dave stewart's solo career respectively

Dave Stewart (keys) and Dave Stewart (gtr) both played with Steve Hillage, hopefully, for Steve's sake, not at the same time.

which dave had the hit with colin blunstone?

keys

the egg man

I can't remember this, but my partner said Dave A gave her a really shitty look of disapproval because we'd brought a nipper to a Bruce Nauman exhibition. But I'd dread to venture a kids at art exhibitions discussion on here after how the kids in pubs thread went!

Well, I took Amber and Alice to the Spencer Tunnick exhib in the Baltic Centre, so ner.

Anyway, Dave S wrote another song about when Jack Nicholson phoned him, called "It's Jack Calling"

Whereas Dave S wore a PIL t-shirt on his appearance on top of the pops.

Anyway, Dave S wrote another song about when Jack Nicholson phoned him, called "It's Jack Calling"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5P5F3IYoQ

The nobbly bits on pavements help visually impaired people judge where the kerb is.

OK thats a worthy one! what'dye think they did?

OK, I've just found out what RT means - re-tweet - I thought it meant Russia Today. I'm right naive, me.

I make that mistake all the time.

i knew that, i win!

this is a spectacularly foolish one: i hadn't realized that the "dye in the pool that activates if you urinate" thing was an urban legend until this week. i am 33. in fairness i had assumed that it was either: a) something that was done in the past but not anymore, or b) something that was done in other countries (like maybe the US where it features as a plot line in movies and tv sometimes) but not in the UK.

This summer I told my children this lie and intend to keep it going for as long as possible.

there's always the candiru fish fallback plan

Just found out this week that the Marianas Trench, the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean is named after the group of islands 200km away from it which I think I'd only heard of individually. Guam being one of them.
Just turned up in Ken Burns The War I think tied in with the story of the Indianapolis. Ship that after being repaired from a kamikaze attack was tasked with a secret mission. Kept secret from its 1000+ crew some of whom thought it was delivering scented toilet paper for McArthur's use. But turned out to be the bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima. I wondered if there was any record of radiation poisoning among the crew afterwards. But this was the ship that went on to be torpedoed and have the survivors floating in open ocean for days being picked off by sharks. I then remembered Robert Shaw in Jaws which I haven't seen in years. It's the ship he was supposed to have been on.

Plus, as Robert Shaw and his shipmates floated in the water, some of them had to pee. Unfortunately, there was a special dye in the ocean that activates if you urinate. And the color attracts sharks. [CUE TWILIGHT ZONE THEME]

I don't think I'd realised quite how many people died in that incident,. Only 316 out of a crew of 1000+ were eventually saved.

0203 phone numbers for London exist.

?!?

Kept secret from its 1000+ crew some of whom thought it was delivering scented toilet paper for McArthur's use

if you're gonna lie, lie big!

i'd not seen a 0203 telephone number before last week and now i've seen 2. they are geographical numbers for london (like 0207 and 0208).

(actually, londonist points out that london area code is 020 and the above are more correctly (020)7 and (020)8 (and (020)3))

They've been around since 2005!

iirc the geographical thing is no longer a hard & fast rule so some 020 7 numbers are in outer london and some 020 8 in inner. /telephonesplaining

Look here is a whole fascinating page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_telephone_code_misconceptions#London_numbers_added_in_2005

nobody calls me, what can i say?

koogs, I am surprised you thought the code was 0207 and 0208 rather than 020. That's a classic! It mattered more when people actually bothered dropping the local area code when calling from a local landline. Or when people called from landlines at all.

I still think the code is 0171 / 0181

01 till I die.

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the 0171 and 0181 changes kicked in when I was living in Woolwich, so same here!

I learned something last week that I really should have known long before: but I'm now so shockingly old that I've forgotten what it is...

That "varsity" is short for "university"

agh that's terrible

The characters of Elmyra and Montana Max in Tiny Toons are surrogates for Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam

the basic skills of treating and dealing with cracked calluses on my fingers. With the simple combined use of a file and some moisturising cream. Nobody ever taught me this stuff!

That "varsity" is short for "university"

This reminds me of weird things like "gubernatorial" like what even is that word.

the adjective of governorship based on the same latin root.

That "varsity" is short for "university"

― i know kore-eda (or something), Monday, September 25, 2017 2:58 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this can't be true

*visits oed*

Etymology: Colloquial abbreviation of university n.

The hell

Yeah, varsity is new one for me, especially because I associate it more with high school

that the word painstaking is pains-taking, as in taking pains to do something well, and not pain-staking

I just got why "fruit flies like a banana" is funny

This reminds me of weird things like "gubernatorial" like what even is that word.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 25 September 2017 23:38 (three days ago)

the adjective of governorship based on the same latin root.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 00:44 (two days ago)

Fun fact (or maybe not): also from the same root, or the root of that root I guess, being from the Greek = cybernetics.

calzino's post reminds me that there's loads of basic everyday stuff (start brushing your hair near the bottom if it might be tangled and work your way up, how to use various kitchen implements, more I can't remember right now) that I never worked out until well into my adulthood and then went "nobody told me this!!1" to my parents, who immediately said that they totally had told me that repeatedly as a child but I never listen

probably I really do never listen, though there's also lots of stuff that they never bothered telling me because "everyone just knows" and apparently I'm the only person who ever needed to be told it